Aristocratic

Examples

• The tie between the Dagonets, the du Lacs of Maryland, and their aristocratic Cornish kinsfolk, the Trevennas, had always remained close and cordial. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Needless to say, this weak aristocratic republic, with its recurrent royal elections, invited aggression from all three of its neighbours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her memory had an aristocratic bias, and was very treacherous whenever she tried to recall any circumstance connected with those below her in life. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It was in fact rather more republican than Britain, but its republicanism was more aristocratic in form. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The idea of my being aristocratic and well-bred, and your being afraid to go anywhere alone! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The next the aristocratic mask was replaced, and the gentle voice had returned. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Blood is everything, after all, would that aristocratic religionist say. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Poland was not simply a crowned aristocratic republic like the British, it was a paralyzed crowned aristocratic republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their state was, in the fifth century B.C., a republic of the Aryan type very similar to a Greek aristocratic republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was made up of songs of free adventure, aristocratic and valiant in spirit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then, with an extraordinary effort of aristocratic self-command, he sat down and sank his face in his hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I'm not aristocratic, but I do object to being seen with a person who looks like a young prize fighter, observed Jo severely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The less aristocratic officers of the 97th devoted themselves to the families of the less important functionaries from the dockyard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There was grief in the aristocratic house, and there was joy in the Bower. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In appearance he was a man of exceedingly aristocratic type, thin, high-nosed, and large-eyed, with languid and yet courtly manners. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The fellow in the doorway was goodlooking and clean-limbed, his bearing was calm, he looked elegant, aristocratic. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Dislike to employ scientific knowledge as it functions in men's occupations is itself a survival of an aristocratic culture. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• His face was immutable, aristocratic-looking, tinged slightly with grey under the skin; he was young and good-looking. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In the great aristocratic crowned republic of Britain there was the same shrinkage of educational opportunity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This community followed the usual tradition of a division into aristocratic and common citizens, who were called in Rome patricians and plebeians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Finally, the aristocratic tradition which looked down upon material things and upon the senses and the hands was still mighty. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Non-aristocratic officers were to be weeded from the army; the power of the church over private life was to be extended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But most of the Greek city states had become aristocratic republics long before the sixth century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was a good-looking, capable young man of fortune, and until he was twenty-nine he lived the ordinary aristocratic life of his time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A second decemvirate, appointed in succession to the first, attempted a sort of aristocratic counter-revolution under Appius Claudius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was not big nor red, like poor 'Petrea's', it was only rather flat, and all the pinching in the world could not give it an aristocratic point. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The teaching of Confucius centred upon the idea of a noble life which he embodied in a standard or ideal, the Aristocratic Man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For the most part these European towns were independent or quasi-independent aristocratic republics. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Anyhow, he named to me that the house had a board up, “This Eminently Aristocratic Mansion to be let or sold. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• In a month the ancient and decayed system of the aristocratic order had collapsed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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